Oil seal



Marth 19, 1935.

OIL SEAL Filed'bec. 28, .1952

Patented Mar. i9, 1935 v @EL 'SEAL Victor lll. Nelson, Pontiac, Mich., assigner to Universal (Dil-Seal Company, Pontiac, Mich., a corporation ofv Michigan applicaties necesita as, i932, serrer ne. @sans 2 pains.l (ci. 22eme) lThis invention relates to oil seals adapted t projects. An inner cup member 6 is provided for be positioned within a h'ousing in encompassing insertion in the outer cup member and the inner relation to a rotatable shaft or the like to precup member 6 has a lateral ange 'l overlying the vent grease, oil or other liquid from owing end of the cup member 4 and the end of the 5 through the housing or along 'the'shaft to the housing or bearing structure 2. This inner cup 5 exterior of the seal. 6 has an outwardly coned portion 8 formed with The principal object oi the invention is to a central aperture 9 through which the shaft exprovide a spring pressed packing ring carried in tends, which cone like portion is spaced from the a housing therefor and insertable as a unit in a base 10 of the member fi seating in the recess l.

l0 shaft housing with the packing ring in pressure of the housing 2. lo engagement with the shaft by reason of the spring Between this cone portion 8 and the base i0 pressure. i of the member 4. is provided a compressible packit is further an object of the invention to proing element 11,a flat washer l2 and a spring Vide an oil seal having a compressible packing washerlB of circular form and of what is known l5 ring supported in a shaft housing and a spring as the wave type. Thespring washer 13 lies 15 mea-ns in conjunction with the ring to cause presbetween the at washer or plate 12 and the base sure engagement thereof with the shaft to coml0 and tends to force the washer 12 toward the pensate for wear, and an additional object isv to cone shaped portion 8 of the member 6' thus comprovide a structure in which the rpacking ring pressing the packing member l1 lying between v is made serviceable for longer periods of time the washer 12 Vand thecone portion 8. This 2o than is usual through the provision of means for spring Washer tends to constantly maintain a repeatedly placing the packing under pressure pressure on the packing element and therefore engagement with the shaft subsequent to cessatends to feed the member 12 toward the cone 8 tion of the functioning of the spring element prowhich, due to its cone form, tends to force the vided for the purpose. Thus, after wear of the packing inwardly toward the shaft to pressure 25 ring to such degree that the spring no longer Contact therewith. The spring therefore automay automatically compensate therefor, a man` matically compensates for wear of the packing ually operable means is provided to again by and insures the efcient functioning of the packpressure cause engagement of the' ring with the ing in prevention of the oil or grease passing from 3Q shaft and also again place the ring under tension the bearing along the shaft surface to the exterior 30 to automatically function in maintaining presof the bearing and oil seal. The cup member 6 sure engagement between the ring and the shaft. may be secured in the cup member 4. in any ap- These and other objects and various novel fea- .proved manner and the member a is a pressed iit tures of construction of an oil seal embodying in the chamber 1 of the housing whereby leakage my invention vare shown in the accompanying along the wall of the recess is prevented. 35 drawing in whichy By this construction the oil seal may be made Fig. 1 is a cross section of my improved oil for sale as a complete assembled unit which in seal showing the same in its assembled relation assembling the same with the shaft and housing with the shaftand the housing or bearing for the packing ring is caused lto tightly engage the 40 the shaft. shaft and will continue to so do within the limits 40 Fig. 2 is a similar section showing an alternaof operation of the spring in forcing the packing tive form of construction. 11 tov engagement with the cone member and Fig. 3 is a section showing the form of the packthereby force the same toward the shaft as wear ing adapted for repeated manual takeup of ear takes place.

of the ring in conjunction with a spring means It is pointed out, however, that the form of the v45 to take up a certain degree of Wear. spring may be varied without departing from vFig. 4 is a perspective view of the preferred the spirit of this invention, the essentialfeature form ofspring. being the ovision of a spring means in con- In the preferred form of construction shown in junction wi h the washer or apertured plate 12 Fig. l the seal is set into an annular recess 1 in and a coned wall of the recess in which the pack- 50 a housing or bearing 2 for a shaft 3 and the seal ing ring 11 is positioned.

consists of an outer cup shaped member 4F" In'the form of the invention shown in Fig. 2,

L'shaped irr cross section, the base of which is thev same shaft 3,- recess 1 and housing `2 are formed with an aperture 5 of greater diameter shown. The formof the 'outer cup member dif.

Y than the shaft and through which the shaft fers and, as is shown at 14,` has a. wall parallel 55 v which lies between such base, or the member 1"! as shown, and a Washer 19. Between the washer 19 and the coned portion 16 is provided the compressible packing 20 which may be formed of any preferred material. In this construction, Fig. 2, the parts function in the same manner as in the structure shown in Fig. 1, the spring acting to maintain pressure engagement of the packing ring 20 with'the surface of the shaft. Preferably, I use a separable washer like part 17 as an auxiliary to the base 15 to provide a sufficiently large aperture 21 to permit the ready introduction of the packing ring 2l).

There are many installations, particularly in machine tools andthe like, where the vquick assembly of the oil seal in the assembled unit form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 with a shaft and housing is not essential and to avoid replacement of the packing ring after the spring has expanded to its normal extent, I provide the construction shown in Fig. 3 which involves a housing 22 having a recess 23 provided with a threaded wall. In the base of this recess is provided the spring ring 24 similar to those previously described which engages a flat washer 25 forcing the packing ring 24 to engagement with a ring member 26 having a tapered face 27. A threaded member 2 8 is provided fon insertion in the threaded recess 23 to engage the ring 26 which by the threading of the member 28 therein compresses the packing and also places the spring 24 under pressure, whichprincipal feature of the invention is involved in,

either of the forms shown and with the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the seal is made up as an assembled unit which may be introduced in position in the housing` and in encompassing relation with the cylindrical element.

It is further to b'e observed bythe structure I described that the various objects of the invention are attained.

Having thus fully described my invention,.its

lutility and mode of operation, what I claim and member also being provided with an annular flange extending toward the shaft at an angle, an annular compressible packing ring positioned between the bottom of the cup shaped member and the angular flange of the annular member and an undulating flat spring positioned between the bottom of the packing ring and the bottom of the cup shaped member, said spring urging the packing ring into engagement with the angular flange of the annular member-and into engagement with the periphery of the shaft. n

2. In an oil seal, Ia cup shaped member having an aperture in the bottom for a shaft, an annular member provided with a cylindrical portion fitting tightly within the open end of the cup shaped member, said annular member being provided with a peripheral flange overlying the outer edge of the cup shaped member and an annular flange extending inwardly at an angle from the bottom of said cylindrical portion, an annular packing ring provided with an angular face fitting against the angular flange of the annular member, a flat 'washer positioned beneath the packing ring and a flat undulating spring between the washer and 

